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Why is my domain authority lower than my competitors ?

I am totally confused with the information that I am getting from the Site explorer. My domain authority is 26, while my competitor's is 29.

I am confused because every one of the factors that SEOmoz uses to determine our domain authority has higher rankings for my website. My SEOmoz rank is higher, my external followed links is higher, and so forth.

The only factor that my competitor has with a greater ranking or number is that they have more internal links. I used the link metrics portion and added their URL to see all of this information.

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